8 Ways Hiring A Confinement Nanny Can Help New Mothers

Soon after delivering your beautiful baby, you are naturally exhausted. It is highly recommended you get adequate rest to recuperate for the next six weeks. Having to take care of your baby all day and night can deny you rest, good sleep and the much-needed peace of mind, especially if the baby is the active type who plays a lot.

Furthermore, there are other taxing household chores you may have to do on your own. If there is no one around to offer support, for instance, you will have to cook, do the laundry, bath the baby and even get out to find the confinement food and herbs.

As a result, you will with time, lose your stamina and this will slow down your recovery process. You will be weak, with low-quality breast-milk for your beloved baby. Thus, your baby’s growth will be affected. But with a well-trained confinement nanny around, all these unnecessary burdens can be lifted off your weak shoulders.

A nanny will help you in the following ways:

  1. Confinement Food Preparation

With a hired nanny around, you can rest assured you will be served food at the right time. It also helps if the nanny has knowledge of confinement food menu. This highly nutritious food is designed to help you regain your strength. It is a combination of vital nutrients your body urgently needs after the blood loss at the delivery time. With an experienced nanny, dishes like confinement herbal soup and Chinese red dates will be prepared on a daily basis for the mother’s speedy recovery.

  1. Confinement Bath Preparation

For an improved blood circulation, your bath needs to be prepared with the special traditional bathing herbs. That requires time and considerable effort. With an experienced nanny to do this, you can have time to rest. Moreover, the nanny will inform you of proper bathing ways for your baby. Bathing a newborn baby needs guidance from an experienced nanny that only confinement nannies in Singapore can provide.

  1. Cleaning

General house cleaning is one hard activity you should not strain to do as a new mother. With a baby around, the house needs to be clean all the time for fresh air. Sweeping and mopping must never be neglected. With a nanny about the place, laundry will be done regularly; your clothes and the baby’s clothes will be washed and ironed as soon as they get dirty. The nanny will also clean and sterilize the utensils immediately after feeding the baby.

  1. Night Care

As a new mother, you need enough sleep each night to recover quickly. The sleep gives your mind time to rest. But you can’t enjoy your sleep because your baby will be waking up in the middle of the night, crying for attention. With the nanny around, you can sleep throughout the night as she takes care of your baby. The nannies from reputable best confinement nanny Singapore are trained to keep awake at night to change the baby’s diapers periodically.       

  1. Advice and tips

A confinement nanny will offer you timely suggestions on useful confinement practices if and when needed. That is one more reason why having such a person around is vital for you and your baby. 

  1. Timely Baby feeding

A trained nanny has mastered the times the baby should be fed. She makes sure the baby never goes hungry by reminding you to breastfeed. The baby should not be starved lest it loses weight and becomes unhealthy. 

  1. Meticulous touches for your baby

Your baby needs some occasional meticulous touches to massage its body and improve blood circulation. A nanny who has undergone rigorous training in post-natal care knows how to press your baby to make it more active.

  1.  Shopping

You can send the nanny to the shopping centre to get necessary items you and your baby may require. Detergents and diapers are some of the items that can run out of stock. But with a quick nanny around, they can be bought for you within no time.

Conclusion

Hiring a nanny is like killing two birds with one stone. After all, she will be the whole family’s nanny for the period she will be with you. She won’t just restrict herself to shopping for you and your new-born baby, or washing only your clothes when other family members have dirty garments she can clean too.

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  • PEM Confinement Nanny Agency

    We are a group of frontliners and support team members who are passionate about sharing our knowledge and experience in confinement care. Representing the largest confinement nanny agency in Singapore which has served over 250,000 mothers in over 30 years, we are all about sharing useful and insightful information based on our experience to help new parents navigate this exciting chapter of their life better.